A courier has been jailed three years and four months for carrying 11 false passports.

Ma Yuen-chi, 50, pleaded guilty in the District Court to one count of possession of 11 false travel documents.

An airport Customs officer found the passports in Ma's luggage when he arrived from France in June last year.

He admitted that a friend in Spain gave him the four Japanese and seven British National (Overseas) passports to take to Shenzhen.